Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ask NICE to revise the treatment criteria in NICE guidelines on eating disorders; and what recent discussions (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had with NICE on eating disorder guidelines.

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently updating its clinical guideline on Eating disorders: recognition and treatment of eating disorders, and the anticipated publication date is April 2017. Further information is available on NICE’S website at:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-cgwave0703

Ministers have had no discussions with NICE on this guidance.